Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Sean Manning]

It strikes me that 230,000 is on the close order of modern estimates of the total young adult male population of Britain in the first century CE! (Including slaves and paupers and Romans and hermits in the backwoods). Its 23% of a million people. But that only matters if you see it as an empirical claim, if you see it as a number which relates to other stories about barbarian armies its kind of middling, bigger than the numbers in Caesar, smaller than the numbers in Herodotus.